It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. Henry said there is no question that Montgomery has severe mental illness, noting that federal authorities have administered her antipsychotic medications since her arrest in 2004. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". Montgomery described feeling that she was unsure whether her environment was real, and confided that she used a strategy to ground herself in reality: She would look at a tree out the window and tell herself that the tree was real if she could see it. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. She has been let down over and over and over again by people in authority, people who were supposed to be caretakers for her, Mattingly said. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. And then at the end, she was broken.". Randy Strong, one of the investigators who would later get Montgomery to confess, said she apparently used part of a clotheslineto create a garrote, slipping it over Stinnett's head from behind, probably as she was on her knees putting a puppy into a dog carrier. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. There are certain crimes that are universally abhorred by the public, ones that evoke a primal response of disgust and revenge from those who hear about it. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. As her attorneys fight for her life, Montgomery has at times seemed out of touch with reality,Henry said:Hermental illness causesher to disconnectwhen life becomes too terrible to endure. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. Montgomery contacted Stinnett, 23, after meeting her at a dog show earlier that year at Abilene, in north-central Kansas, where they posed with others in a photo. She was sick. The five investigators who went to Montgomery's home that day recently began communicating with oneanother again, said Strong, who is now sheriff ofNodaway County, which includes Maryville and Skidmore. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. But those who believe she should be put to death say her lifetime of horrorscan't excuse what came next: OnDec. 16, 2004, she loaded a steak knife, umbilical cord clamps and part of a clothesline into her car anddrove 175 miles from her home in east-central Kansas to the northwest Missouri home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother she had met at a dog show. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. Ramachandran said women who sufferchildhood sexual abuse and whose minds revolve around babies and pregnancy are predisposed to suffering pseudocyesis, a condition in which they show physical symptoms of pregnancy, including enlargement of the breasts and stomach, morning sickness and cravings for certain foods. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could "get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner" - but those days are long gone. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". "We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. She has exhausted all legal options. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Henry stressed that no one faces a death sentence linked to the 16 other U.S. cases from 1987 to2015 in which a woman has attacked a pregnant woman and her unborn child in an effort to take the childand ended up killing one or both. Shaughnessy beat her children with belts, cords and hangers, put them in cold showers and put duct tape over Montgomery's mouth to silence her, the attorneys said. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Dr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. After previously being allowed contact with a limited number of inmates, Montgomery was moved to a solitary confinement cell at Carswell and kept there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Henry said. Montgomery was put on suicide watch as soon as her execution date was set, Henry said, adding thatMontgomery had previously attempted suicide but not since 2012. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Mattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. A sworn statement from David Kidwell Sr. identified as being Montgomery's cousin and a deputy sheriff said shecried as she told him Kleiner and his friends on more than one occasion had raped her for hours, then "urinated on her like trash. Shaughnessy was cruel and violent to both girls, according to a sworn statement from Patterson, who reported feeling ashamed that he did not step in to stop the abuse. "Come on, baby. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. Likewise, that jury wasn't directed to consider whether Montgomery was severely mentally ill, which Montgomery's attorneys are asking the president to take into account. Lisa Montgomery is no different. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. Maybe you should focus your efforts on the fact that Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, was granted custody of a grandson the year prior to Lisa's crime. About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman shed met at a dog show earlier that year. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Her children were disturbed by it. Left: "Melvern Pride" is the focus of this sign standing at the city limits of Melvern, the community in east-central Kansas where Lisa Montgomery lived. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. In the other cases, she said, prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty or juries did not impose it because it was obvious the women were suffering from profound mental illnesses. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. The couple returned to their home near Melvern, which was being watched by investigators working to identify the woman who had told Stinnett she was Darlene Fischer. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. The couple had three children in rapid succession. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. That is exactly what Lisa Montgomery developed into, which is a person who had profound disconnection from her body, from her mind, from her experience, Porterfield said. Dorr said she and Montgomery were in the same pod,in which inmates may gather outside their cells,in 2006 and 2007 at Leavenworth Detention Center, a for-profit federal facility in northeast Kansas. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. For example, she said, the jury that recommended Montgomery be executed wasn't asked to consider the impact that would have on her four children and 12 grandchildren. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. In Montgomerys early teen years, Kleiner moved the family to an isolated trailer at the end of a dead-end road outside of Sperry, Oklahoma, a severely impoverished area north of Tulsa. Thats happened since Montgomery's childhood, when theterror she experienced while being raped forced her to retreat emotionally into an imaginary house,where everything is fine, Henry said. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. So my letters are important.. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. And theyre taking me away from her.. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. Jack also raped Lisa for years. He was being held in the Shawnee County Jail in 2018 when he filed a federal lawsuit contending the county was violating his constitutional rights by preventing him from sending letters to Montgomery. She needs someone for once in her life to be on her side., Provided by attorneys for Lisa Montgomery, "Biopsychosocial History of Lisa Marie Montgomery," by Jan Vogelsang. Montgomery used the fake name of "Darlene Fischer" and the chilling email address of fischer4kids@hotmail.com as she set up a meeting with Stinnett, according to the charging affidavit in thecase. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. She was quiet and kind, they say. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. "I felt sick watching the video. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Mattingly was 8 years old and Montgomery was 4 when Mattingly was removed in 1972 from Shaughnessy's mobile home at Ogden, a community of about 1,960 people in Riley County. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy would have during her life, which ended in 2013. Its not just the childhood maltreatment and psychological abuse and neglect, or the incredible sexual abuse by her stepfather, or the sex trafficking, Porterfield said. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' The question is, should she be put to death for it. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. In December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. Montgomery lamented that she couldn't be present to console them because she was in solitary confinement, said Dorr, Montgomery's friend since they met in a federal prison in 2006. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. But Lisa was broken. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. "I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten," says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. "I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'" she says. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. She testified as. In the end, it was in prisonwhere she spent years on death row after committing a horrific crimethat she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. In addition to her brain damage, Lisa developed multiple mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, dissociative disorder, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Lisa Montgomery's half-sister Diane Mattingly, who was separated from her in 1972 has taken a more high-profile role in trying to save her life. It is extremely rare for women to be sentenced to death, said Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and an expert on women and the death penalty. Ms. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. Although the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. They recommended a sentence of death. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. Read about our approach to external linking. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". I support my wife and her request for clemency, but because I am sick with COVID and am caring for my parents who are also sick with COVID, I ask the media to respect our need for rest and privacy," he said. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. This is the stuff of nightmares.". Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse can overcome their trauma with certain factors, Porterfield said, such as the presence of a nurturing adult who provides love and connects them to resources to promote healing. In what Mattingly described as the most lucky thing to ever happen to her, she was placed with a loving foster family who showered her with affection. JUDY SHAUGHNESSY OBITUARY Judy K. Shaughnessy Judy K. Shaughnessy, 66, Topeka, formerly of Lyndon, entered into the kingdom of heaven Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Midland Hospice House. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. We lived in a house of horrors. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. For the rest of her life.. Her victim's community said otherwise. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. They were also physically violent. 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